Angle-cock holder



April 24, 1928.

F. K. HABENICHT ANGLE cocx HOLDER Filed June 22, 1923 Fig.5.

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Patented A r. 24, 1928.

UNITED STATES FREDERICK K. I-IABENICHT, OF ST. LOUIS,

COMPANY, 015 str. LOUIS, msson MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR T RAILWAY DEVICES RI, A CORPORATION or MISSOURI.

ANGLE-COCK nonnnn.

Application filed June 22, 1923. Serial No. 647,133.

My invention relates to an angle cock holder and particularly to that type 'of holder in which a support, preferably formed of angle iron, is secured to the end of the car and is provided with a downwardly projecting portion engaging with the front face of the angle cock head, the angle cock being held in position by a Ushaped member passing around the train pipe, and .which may also be provided with a pocket member to receive the side of the angle cock head opposite to that engaging the support. Such a type of holder is shown in Patent No.

' 1.148,?51, granted to S. H. Campbell .on

support,

August- 3, 1 915.

One object of the present invention is' to provide the support with an opening for the passage of one side of. the angle cock head, whereby the train pipe may bear directly against the support so that the device operates not only as an-angle cock holder but also as an effective pipe clamp. Another object of my invention is to provide a separately formed pocket member which is bent into permanent engagement with the thereby reducing the cost of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate two forms of holder made in accordance withmy invention, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the preferred form of my device taken on the line Figure 2 is a side view; spective of the supporting plate; Figure 4 is aside view showing a modification, and Figure 5 is a section taken on the line 55 of Figure 4.

indicates an angle plate forming the Figure 3 1s a percured to the end sill 12 of a railway car by any suitable means, such as the bolts 13. The projecting end of the support 10 is provided with a cut away portion 14, as shown in Figure 3, so as to form an opening through which one side of the hexagonal head 15 of the angle cock projects so that the train pipe 17 may bear directly against the under face of the plate 10. The bifurcated ends 16 .of the plate are bent downwardly to form a pair of projections engaging with the front face of the head 15 at each of the cock as best shown in Figure 1.

The train pipe is held against the plate 10 by means of a lJ b'olt 18 passing around the I U-bolt 11 of Figure 2:'

the vertical flange 11 which is seside of the body said pipe and thence upwardly through holes in the plate 10, the threaded ends of the bolt being engaged by'nuts 19 bearing against the upper face of the plate. In Figures 4 and 5 I have shown the bolt 18 as hearingdirectly against the train pipe 17, while in the preferredform shown in Figures land 2, a separately formed pocket piece 20 is interposed, between the U-bolt and the pipe. This pocket piece not only embraces the threefaces of the hexagonal nut 15 opposite the side passing through the opening 14, but is also provided with'a front flange 21 provjecting upwardly in front of the head 15.

The member 201s provided with a semicircular groove 22 to receive the bend of the U-bolt and terminates in a flange 23 adapted to be bent into permanent engagement with the U-bolt, as shown in Figure 2. It will be understood of course that the member 20 must be made ofmalleable material so that the flange 23 may be bent as shown.

lVhile the form of holder shown in Figures 4 and 5 is not the full equivalent of the preferred form shown in Figures 1 and 2,

as it will not retain the angle cock in case it is broken from the train pipe as the preferred form will, yet it accomplishes one of the principal objects of my invention, which is to provide a holder of the simplest possible construction which will hold an angle cock against both forward movement andv rotation and at the same time serve as an effective train pipe clamp.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettors Patent of the United States is:

In a device of the class described, the combin-ation with a unitary supporting plate adapted to be secured to a car and to bear on the train pipe, the front end of said plate being bifurcated forthe passage of the angle my hand.

FREDERICK K.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set;

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